The dominant currents of Soviet Russian dissident thought — liberal universalism on one side, religious nationalism on the other — shared a common blind spot: neither integrated the national question into their critique of the system. As the Russian socialist historian Ilya Budraitskis has documented, many left-wing dissident groups, after imprisonment and the end of the Khrushchev Thaw, abandoned socialist and Marxist commitments for nationalism, orthodox Christianity, or liberal rights (…)

Written in Kyiv in March–April 1989, this document is one of the few programmatic texts produced by the Eastern European dissident-socialist tradition that integrates the national question into its class analysis as a structural element rather than a secondary concern. Its author, Yurii Badzio, had spent years in the camps of Mordovia and in exile in Yakutia. He came out of the same intellectual current as Kuroń and Modzelewski in Poland, Petr Uhl in Czechoslovakia, and the workers' (…)

Angela Xiao Wu et Yige Dong analysent dix ans d'évolution du féminisme en Chine. Elles identifient deux courants principaux : le féminisme « entrepreneurial », qui traite le mariage comme une transaction délibérée et déstabilise ainsi l'ordre patriarcal, et le féminisme « non coopératif », qui prône le retrait total du marché matrimonial au profit de l'autonomie individuelle.
Face au ralentissement économique, au chômage des jeunes et à l'effondrement de la natalité, ces deux courants (…)

At least 35 people have died after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Mindanao island in the southern Philippines, officials say.
[Update: Three days after the earthquake, the official toll standed at 45, with 630 people injured, whilst rescue teams continue their search for missing persons. Tens of thousands of people remain housed in emergency shelters. Millions of schoolchildren will be unable to return to school.]
The quake hit at 07:37 local time on Monday (Sunday (…)

Since 2022, the Anwar Ibrahim government has enacted the most union-friendly legislative reforms Malaysia has seen in decades --- loosening restrictions on union formation, prohibiting discrimination in union membership, and allocating fresh public funds to build union capacity. Private sector unionisation has nonetheless continued to fall, standing now at roughly 2.5% of the workforce.
S. Arutchelvan, Deputy Chairperson of Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM), explains how the MTUC became (…)